• jetA
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Civilians are innocent. Can the actions of a few condemn the whole group?

    If your in a house, that is on fire, would you want to be rescued even if there was a arsonist with you?

    Collective punishment is nasty unjust business. Where do you draw the line on the group your punishing? And if the innocents harmed in the collective punishment decide to collectively punish you right back… that is just fair - right?

    • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Is a war always collective punishment in your opinion, or just in this case? How is Palestine not also committing collective punishment?

      • jetA
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Your constant calling of what about isn’t serving you well.

        If Hamas was engaged in a similar long term action against a large civilian population, there would be protests against them too.

        For the last 21 days the majority of civilians suffering are in Gaza, so Gaza gets the protestors today.

        Squeaky wheel gets the oil.

        Saying the people of Gaza need to die to satisfy your thirst for revenge just means the cycle of killing wont end with you

        • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Don’t put words in my mouth, please. I don’t have a “thirst for revenge” or am saying people in Gaza “need to die”!

          It’s you who wants Jewish civilians to just be murdered and kidnapped and Hamas get applauded for it. (Feels bad, right?)

          In their enthusiastic zeal to defend Palestine people are incredibly apologetic towards Hamas and similar groups. And seem all to happy to forget the kind of politics Palestine puts on display. And that for several decades now.

          I wish people would think more long-term and realistic instead of screaming at each other who is the bigger protector of the oppressed. It seems shallow to be honest, and not really in favour of a better situation.

          • jetA
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            Why is it so hard to agree that killing civilizations is bad and nobody should do it. Why does pointing out the Gazan civilians are dying have to be conditioned on anything else?

              • jetA
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                edit-2
                1 year ago

                You never say the words explicitly…

                You simply say ‘what else should Israel do’.

                Your posting history never is about saving civilians.

                Notice how you didn’t agree with my last post that ‘killing civilians is bad and no one should do it’. Do you agree with that?

                • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  1 year ago

                  Of course I do. When you are digging through my post history you should have seen that I said that multiple times already.

                  When I look through your post history, though, I don’t see a shred of sympathy for Israelis. Just apologies for the atrocities Palestine is committing. Are these people not responsible for their own doing?

                  • jetA
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    arrow-up
                    1
                    ·
                    edit-2
                    1 year ago

                    Your conflating the people of Palestine and Hamas. That’s like balming Jews globally for the actions of the IDF.

                    Palestine is not committing atrocities, Hamas is. Most Palestinians don’t live in Gaza, so the majority of Palestinians don’t support Hamas.

                    Even in your last comment your assigning collective responsibility for individual actions. That’s an implicit endorsement of collective punishment.

                    We’re all humans, should we be killing random humans for the actions of Hamas?

                    For what it’s worth, I’m very sympathetic to the Israeli civilians who’ve been killed. It’s a terrible experience they went through. I don’t wish that on anybody.

                    I did not however, have solidarity with the Israeli government policies, which created a situation where violence is inevitable